The text above doesn't actually say wind power disconnecting was the cause, just that it preceded everything else crashing. Whether everything else would have crashed anyway (e.g. after the poles folded like wet cardboard) is not answered, yet.

Like many such online articles, they amend an existing one rather than start from scratch, and it ends up contradicting itself.

No. it doesn't. You're absolutely right. It just hangs it out there for all the right wing shills to froth about on online forums.

Phase to ground events dropped the wind power, which it does so with any type of generation. That was only part of the fault cascade that occurred, of course. But, lightening from a huge farking storm struck a couple of wind farms so that will be all people focus on and the propaganda will be that means "wind farms baaaad".

Well, The Age in their wisdom has produced an article coined "The secret art of persuasion: Naked City's 12 most influential Victorians" written by John Silvester. At number two they give a lovely little write up for our very own serial rapist and murderer Adrian Bayley. I guess he's an influential victorian.....not sure we needed to be reminded of it.

Thats going to go over well with the waking public on a Saturday morning.

Other mentions on the list to keep the rapist and murderers company was, pig shock-jock Ross Stevenson, small person Alistair Clarkson, Stephen Dank (who?) and our favourite Caroline Wilson.